ANIL'S GHOST
by Ondaatje, Michael
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375410538
- ISBN 13
- 9780375410536
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page with black, fine line marker.. In ANIL'S GHOST, Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. The time is our own time. The place is Sri Lanka, the island nation formerly know as Ceylon, off the southern tip of India, a country steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and tradition--and forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war and the consequences of a country divided against itself. Into this maelstrom steps a young woman, Anil Tissera, born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to work with local officials to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. Bodies are discovered. Skeletons. And particularly one, nicknamed "Sailor." What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past--all propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilization, ANIL'S GHOST is a literary spellbinder, and winner of the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Prix Medicis, the Kiriyama Prize, and the Giller Prize. As new, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.[Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] L24/L98
Synopsis
Michael Ondaatje is the author of three previous novels, a memoir and eleven books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize. Born in Sri Lanka, he moved to Canada in 1962 and now lives in Toronto.
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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6033
- Title
- ANIL'S GHOST
- Author
- Ondaatje, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0375410538
- ISBN 13
- 9780375410536
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- FICTION MYSTERY DETECTIVE GENERAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SRI LANKA General, General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed/Inscribed Books;
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- 2
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